Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Spain’s penal code reforms soften penalties linked to Catalan separatist leaders
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's upper house of parliament on Thursday passed reforms to the penal code affecting crimes for which several Catalan leaders were convicted after their 2017 bid for the region'...
Dec 22, 2022
Olympics-IOC raises prospect of boxing being pulled from Paris Games
(Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday raised the possibility of boxing being excluded from the 2024 Paris Games, saying its Russian-led world body showed it had "no real in...
Dec 22, 2022
Biden warns Americans: ‘Leave now’ if you plan to travel for Christmas holiday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States faces "dangerous and threatening" storms in the days before Christmas, President Joe Biden warned Thursday from the White House, and Americans who plan to trave...
Dec 22, 2022
U.S. FDA approves Gilead’s long-acting HIV drug Sunlenca
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc's Sunlenca therapy for HIV infections, paving the way for a drug that requires less frequent dosing tha...
Dec 22, 2022
Kellogg divests Russian operations to local company Chernogolovka
(Reuters) - Kellogg Co said on Thursday it has decided to divest its operations in Russia to Chernogolovka, a local company. The Corn Flakes maker earlier this year suspended all imports of its produc...
Dec 22, 2022
Helsinki court orders indemnities to narcolepsy patients in Pandemrix vaccine case
By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Helsinki court ordered on Thursday payment of indemnities to a new group of Finnish patients who were found to have caught the sleep disorder narcolepsy as a si...
Dec 22, 2022
Canadian watchdog yet to decide on Roger-Shaw merger, to give notice ahead of decision
(Reuters) -Canada's competition tribunal said on Thursday it had not arrived at a decision regarding the C$20 billion ($14.7 billion) merger between Rogers Communications Inc and Shaw Communications I...
Dec 22, 2022
G7 to Taliban: women ban in universities could amount to crime against humanity
BERLIN (Reuters) - Gender persecution may amount to a crime against humanity, said a statement by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday on behalf of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy nat...
Dec 22, 2022
Exclusive-US says Russia’s Wagner Group bought North Korean weapons for Ukraine war
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, took delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to help bolster Russian forces in Ukraine, a sign of ...
Dec 22, 2022
China hospital data absent from WHO’s latest COVID reports, raising concern
By Emma Farge and Bernard Orr GENEVA/BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Health Organization has received no data from China on new COVID-19 hospitalisations since Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policy, prom...
Dec 22, 2022
